The most dangerous phrase in the language is: 'We've always done it this way.'

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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and US Navy rear admiral born in 1906 who pioneered the compiler and helped develop COBOL. She popularized the term 'debugging' and championed machine-independent programming languages.
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